How easy to change a light bulb?

[DickieG]

Here's a video on how to change a light bulb turn on your speakers as it has a running commentary to explain the detail, enjoy!

[jgra1]

i feel ill.. think it's worse watching without sound...

[DickieG]

i feel ill.. think it's worse watching without sound...

I couldn't watch it without constantly looking away and even then it made me feel ill

[Xantidote]

Well, I have problems climbing the extending ladder, on the gable end of the house. Find I'm happier after a few ascents.

I guess he gets used to it, starting on shorter masts. Won't be visiting many sites in a day

Wonder if it's worse going up or down

[ACTIVE8]

The only way is (a long way) up!

[Xaccers]

Fantastic video Richard, really interesting
I'd be tempted to base jump to get home in time for tea, actually if you used one of those wing suits you could probably fly home for tea!

[DickieG]

What made me laugh is just as he's about to get to the top the commentator states "There's no quick down from here"

[myglaren]

What made me laugh is just as he's about to get to the top the commentator states "There's no quick down from here"

Oh yes there is!

[Xaccers]

What made me laugh is just as he's about to get to the top the commentator states "There's no quick down from here"

Yeah when mentioning lightenting storms!

[red_dwarfers]

I felt a bit queezy watching that!

Very interesting. One gust of sudden wind though with no safety gear

[addo]

Looked like fun! Curious how much someone like that earns per climb?

The only bit which bothered me, was when he hooked his line onto the climbing lugs - some risk of it jiggling off in a fall...

[CitroJim]

I enjoyed that I have a terrible fear of heights (honest) and 6 feet off the deck is enough to do me in

However I love watching things like that even though it makes me feel a bit ohh, err..

Similarly love watching roller coaster rides, especially if the camera angle is right in front of the car but you'd never get me on one in a million years.

Back in my first trade, many of our aerial masts had red obstruction lights at the top and our riggers used to run up and down them as if they were horizontal when the bulbs all too frequently needed changing. Riggers are of a different breed to the rest of us!!!

The highest I've ever tried climbing a mast was about 30 feet up and I was petrified

[michael95r]

Got a cousin out in the States who does this for a living. I think he is a little strange, but he earns a lot of money and spends it too.

[Jodyone]

It's interesting that the term "free climbing" is used differently than I'm used to, as a rock climber. In rock climbing, "free" means climbing a rockface without mechanical aid (hooks and bolts set in the rock that you rest or pull on to make progress). Climbing "free" means using only your body. Our term for climbing without protection (ropes and attachments to catch you if you fall), is "solo" or "free-soloing".

Judged by climbing difficulty scales, this is off the bottom of the scale. Yet— the sheer height, and 360 degree exposure (the sense of height and danger, if you like), would absolutely terrify me. I'm a very average climber, but I still climb rockfaces on fingertip ledges (with protection!), and I'm happy to solo "easy" routes (still much more difficult and marginal than this tower). But I don't think I could climb this easy tower like the man in the video, without completely freaking! It's peculiar how our minds work, given that a fall is no more fatal from a thousand feet than from a hundred.